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Oracle rises to Sun hardware challenge

...It has been six months since Oracle finalised its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and with the latest quarterly results showing that Sun turned a... Read more

6 July, 2010 by Tim Ferguson

Oracle and NetApp end patent disputes

...on Thursday that it has settled its long-standing patent disputes with Sun Microsystems, now owned by Oracle. Terms of the dismissals have been kept... Read more

10 September, 2010 by Ben Woods

Google hires Java founder Gosling

James Gosling, the programmer who founded Java at Sun and left the company when it was acquired by Oracle, has joined Google Read more

29 March, 2011 by Stephen Shankland
<endeca_term>Sun Microsystems</endeca_term> - SOA Governance for Oracle

Sun Microsystems - SOA Governance for Oracle

Sun Microsystems is a Fortune 500 vendor of software, systems, services, and developing... Read more

1 January, 2011

ZFS creator to leave Oracle

Jeff Bonwick, who led the team at Sun Microsystems in creating the Zetabyte File System, is to leave Oracle, he... Read more

28 September, 2010

Oracle sues Google over Android's use of Java

...in turn runs on a Dalvik virtual machine (VM). When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems in 2009, it picked up Java as part of the deal... Read more

13 August, 2010 by David Meyer
Oracle's Optimized Solution for Mission Critical Databases - A Technical

Oracle's Optimized Solution for Mission Critical Databases - A Technical

The union of Oracle and Sun Microsystems brings together two business partners who have long collaborated closely to... Read more

1 September, 2010

How Oracle has made Sun rise again

Changes in the Sun Microsystems hardware business are reaping rewards It's been six months since... Read more

5 July, 2010 by Tim Ferguson

Android doesn't violate Oracle's Java patents, jury decides

...operating system infringed on a Java patent acquired with the purchase of Sun Microsystems. Google responded by claiming the Android team was unaware of Sun... Read more

24 May, 2012 by Josh Lowensohn
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 7 Update 4

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 7 Update 4

...standalone applications over a network. This is the official Java Download from Sun Microsystems.Java Runtime Environment is in the Other Browser Add-ons & Plug... Read more

30 April, 2012
NeoOffice 3.2.1p5

NeoOffice 3.2.1p5

...to the unique needs of Mac users by taking the features in Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice.org office suite Read more

26 April, 2012

Intel becomes a LibreOffice distributor

...The Document Foundation made the split after Oracle took over OpenOffice sponsor Sun Microsystems. OpenOffice itself has since been handed over to the Apache Software... Read more

24 February, 2012

Judge rejects Oracle fraud claim against HP

...company. The dispute arose a year after Oracle closed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems — a move that saw the company gain a hardware division that... Read more

31 January, 2012

Are we in a datacentre building bubble?

...in Oracle's interest to say so: thanks to its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, it's now a hardware company selling servers and storage as... Read more

16 January, 2012

Oracle earnings hurt by falling hardware sales

...system and the Oracle Big Data Appliance in Q3." Since Oracle bought Sun Microsystems in early 2010 the company has been attempting to grow its... Read more

21 December, 2011 by Jack Clark

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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